Cub Scouts and Baby Nora

Cub Scout season has started and Josh is beyond thrilled to finally join the official ranks (he's been an honorary Cub for the last 2 years).  He's a Tiger Cub this year, Den 6.  He had such a proud moment last night at the Pack Meeting when he accepted his first belt loop from the Horsebacking Riding merit aware they earned earlier this summer at Grandpa's house.  Ben moves up the Webelos level this year.  And we were excited to get a visit from Cousin Nora, who's a month old now and already 9 1/2 lbs!

balloons

I picked up balloons for Dan to take with him to the Cub Scout information session this evening and the boys were totally fascinated by them.  Love their looks of concentration.  What out moon, these kiddos are practicing their flying skills.  There was talk of tapping a lego man to a balloon and letting it go so, "an alien could see what a Lego guy looks like."

First Day of School

First day of 1st and 4th grade.  The boys are in a mixed grade classroom, so they both have the same teachers in the same classroom as last year, so there wasn't any first day of school jitters.  They thought their first day was last Tuesday and there was a look of such disappointment last week when I told them, no it's next Tuesday.  And they were both so excited that they got to ride their bikes home from school this afternoon with Nana, with a pit stop for ice cream, exciting times.